Series 14 - Indigenous issues


Date Range1975 - 2005
ProvenanceWEL Cairns
Description

Contains letters; newspaper clippings; reports on varaious topics including reconciliation, Yarrabah Hospital, birthing facilities, remote communities, infant mortality, education

ArrangedOrder imposed by Archives

Inventory Listing

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues
Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1980 - 2005
Inventory Identifier WELC00246 Series 14
Aboriginal infant mortality

Paper presented by Anne O'Byrne

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1985
Inventory Identifier WELC00208 Box Number 15 Series 14
Reconciliation

Contains copy of a draft Document for Reconciliation; transcript of Life Matters program 20 & 21/11/1997 "The Wik 10-point plan explained"; letters; speech by Dr Lois O"Donoghue "Crunch time for reconciliation and native title" 16/11/1997; brochure

Creator WEL Cairns
Control Date order imposed by Archives
Date range 1997
Inventory Identifier WELC00024 Box Number 15 Series 14
ATSI issues

Contains letters; articles with information on:
Aboriginal deaths in custody
Native titles
Aboriginal Women's Officer position
Funding - ATSI students to attend conferences
Women's business for girls
Funding - Women's support groups
ATSI Women's Lobby Group

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1980 - 2005
Inventory Identifier WELC00420 Box Number 15 Series 14
Aboriginal education

Contains copy of recommendations: Education resource centres in Far North Queensland communities to be linked with the proposed tertiary facility in Cairns

Creator WEL Cairns
Inventory Identifier WELC00421 Box Number 15 Series 14
Miscellaneous

Contains Summary of the regulations to The Aborigines Act 1971; Torres Strait Islanders Act 1971; newsletter "Action for aboriginal rights" no. 12, June 1981

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1971 - 2000
Inventory Identifier WELC00422 Box Number 15 Series 14
General correspondence

Contains general correspnondence

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1985 - 2005
Inventory Identifier WELC00423 Box Number 15 Series 14
Bama Eco School at Munu Munu

Bama Eco School was a project sponsored by Bama Healing Centre and funded by Queensland Health
Contains letters; newsletter dated 1/6/1994

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1994
Inventory Identifier WELC00302 Box Number 15 Series 14
Birthing Facilities

Contains letters; news releases; copies of newspaper clippings; copy of WEL Cairns report titled "Birthing facilities in aboriginal communities: a Far North Queensland perspective" 25/5/1989; copy of article "How birth rights link to land rights" from the Medical Observer, 19/2/1993; transcripts of Top of the State, 29/4/1994 & 14/9/1994

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1986 - 1994
Inventory Identifier WELC00139 Box Number 15 Series 14
Report of the Congress Alukura - Pilot Health Programme June 1988

Contains copy of report

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1988
Inventory Identifier WELC00098 Box Number 15 Series 14
Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjaray Yankunytjatjara Women's Council

The NPY Women's Council was formed in 1980 as part of the regional umbrella organisation, the Pitjantjara Council.

In June 1994 the NPY Women's Council separately incorporated.

It is a resource, support and advocacy organisation to its members in the remote cross border region of Central Australia, an area of 350,000 square kilometres.
Contains information package about how the Commonwealth Government budget cutbacks to ATSIC will drastically affect the work of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara (NYP) Women's Council and covering letter

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1996    Quantity 10 cm,
Inventory Identifier WELC00083 Box Number 15 Series 14
Remote Communities - Facilities

Contains report on the Needs for community creche Alyangula, Groote Eylandt

Creator WEL Cairns
Inventory Identifier WELC00155 Box Number 15 Series 14
The Stolen Generation

Contains letters; invitation to Stolen Generations Public Forum; newspaper clippings; copy of pamphlett "Walking the walk" : a gudied walk to visit and acknowledge some of the places involved in the Stolen Generations

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1997
Inventory Identifier WELC00025 Box Number 15 Series 14
Warringu Resources Centre

Contains copy of Constitution and rules of the Warringu Resource Centre; letter

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1982
Inventory Identifier WELC00159 Box Number 15 Series 14
Yarrabah Hospital

Contains letters

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1996
Inventory Identifier WELC00138 Box Number 15 Series 14

Published by the James Cook University Library, December 2007
Listed by Alan Cockerill
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